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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Volker already mentioned the driver problem. If you wonder *why* the |
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> drivers are broken: |
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> GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration |
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> hardware. The 3D engine of the hardware must be used to render 2D stuff |
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> (including video). NVidia has not really implemented this for their |
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> Linux drivers yet. Right now, GeForce 5, 6 and 7 series is much faster |
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> with 2D on linux than GeForce 8 and 9. |
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I have one 8800gt and 7300 and the 7300 it's not faster than 8800. Using |
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xrender is slow and the opengl render is not better. The ATI on my |
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laptop isn't any better. |
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Both kde 4 and qt 4 are terribly slow with graphics. |
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